It's annoying to have to open someone's profile to view their pronouns. Naturally some people are going to be too lazy to ever bother and just assume one way or another, resulting in unnecessary confusion.
Proposal
I think this Vencord plugin has done it really well. https://github.com/Vendicated/Vencord/tree/main/src/plugins/userMessagesPronouns
Basically, show the pronouns inline after the timestamp in user messages. It's not like that space is being used for much anything anyway, and this is useful (and for many, very important) information for others to know. Having greater exposure would be a net positive.
I could see some people still preferring to have a cleaner look, so this could just be a toggle in settings for those who want to see this.
RexSystem1 voteoriginally by @xfalc0 on GitHub2 replies
Maybe instead of a global toggle, a toggle setting within a user's profile is what would display their pronouns within user messages, like a checkbox labelled "check to display your pronouns in messages". That way, individual users who want their pronouns shown can enforce it, and others who don't really care for it won't have their pronouns shown.
I could also see an implementation where if you've bothered to set pronouns, you will also just automatically see others' pronouns. A perhaps naive assumption that if you've bothered to set pronouns you care enough to also see others' pronouns.
Admittedly, I hadn't thought through the setting/enablement through too much, but your idea is also valid.
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